Showing posts with label nose. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nose. Show all posts

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Life's gentle slopes....


This is a poem written on demand.  From another blogger , who likes the subject of this photo and thought the nose ring needed to be honored with a poem.

This is a young photoblogger  who is obsessed with noserings .  Never loses an opportunity to wear them, despite not having a pierced nose.

When I was young, it was always known that those who carried a nose ring well, and looked amazing wearing it, had the ideal nose :  lovely, straight, and delicate like the fresh bud of a champa flower .... नाजूक चाफेकळी .

Today, you don't have to get your nose pierced, you get "naths" or noserings that clip on, and how you look wearing it, really has to do with how thrilled and happy you are about it.

You need to hear what the pearls feel .....


Pearly whites,
shining in the smile
amused at the
excitement
of some other white pearls,
traveling
on a
thin path of gold.

A few by themselves,
a few clumped together
whispering
with some
beady red types
pretending to be rubies.
and then
throwing themselves a curve
to form a lovely
pearly flower
reaching out through the
nose
to the gold wire.

As the little gold molecule
said to the beady pearl,
"The nose is not pierced....
Be grateful
for the gentle slope
of her nose;
Had she the nose
like a champa bud
specified by the standards,
you and I
would have slipped
and
fallen by the wayside
in no time ....."



Friday, August 17, 2012

Poking one's Nose ...


My young FB friend  Sudev Sarkar was a neighbor more than 25 years ago, when he was a student.

Technology allows you to meet so many folks , virtually, that you haven't seen for years.

 He recently went on a Safari to the Amboseli National Park  in Kenya, and posted some amazing photos here.

One,  portraying the giraffes, sort of reminded me of something. 

 (photo by Sudev Sarkar)
So many
tall upright leaders
aware of the environment,
minding their own
life and work,

an example to their young

It takes one
stray
disobedient,
interfering,
pseudo powerful,
physically imposing
but empty minded
insecure type
to
poke his nose in
and cause problems.

Politics of the jungle ?